Occupational Therapy at Columbia University in the City of New York

If you are interested in studying occupational therapy/therapist, you may want to check out the program at Columbia University in the City of New York. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Columbia is located in New York, New York and approximately 30,135 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Occupational Therapy section at the bottom of this page.

Columbia Occupational Therapy Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Occupational Therapy
• Doctorate Degree in Occupational Therapy

Columbia Occupational Therapy Rankings

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There were 2 students who received their doctoral degrees in occupational therapy, making the school the #69 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Occupational Therapy Student Demographics at Columbia

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the occupational therapy majors at Columbia University in the City of New York.

Columbia Occupational Therapy Master’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 55 students graduated with a master's degree in occupational therapy from Columbia. About 9% were men and 91% were women.

Of the students who received a occupational therapy master's degree from Columbia, 64% were white. This is below average for this degree on the natiowide level. In the occupational therapy master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 27% of degree recipients. That is 5% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Columbia University in the City of New York with a master's in occupational therapy.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	13
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	35
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

Related Majors

• Physical Therapy/Therapist

Careers That Occupational Therapy Grads May Go Into

A degree in occupational therapy can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NY, the home state for Columbia University in the City of New York.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Health Specialties Professors	22,170	$127,230
Occupational Therapists	9,740	$88,370

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Nandaro under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.